hello. i am me. i am kent.
my facebook has more about me that i don't feel like detailing here so go there.
i like to make people smile.
i'm simple.
3rd Quarter Post Count: 45
4th Quarter Post Count: 39

My Work

Forum Postings

Jacob's Room

Shadows and Dust "i like the gladiator analogy"
is this a novel? "it's a novel with an altered structure"
Jacob to the window "we're always looking out windows, but can't step into others lives fully"
The Strange Thing About Life "life is strange, but that's awesome"
Chaos vs. Cosmos "Life is crazy and chaotic, but that's the fun of it"

The Making of A Poem

The Ballads Today "familiar rhythms make things memorable"
The Tale of Custard the Dragon "a funny story that goes in a circle"
Common Themes "the ballad describes the full spectrum of human experience"

She Stoops To Conquer

Alternate Title "makes the play easier to understand"
Tony is the Key "the catalyst for all the romance in the play"
How Everything Went Wrong Made Everything Go Right? "it all worked out somehow in the end"
Lumpkin "everyone would be totally lost without this unsung hero"
Similarity to Midsummer Night's Dream "Goldsmith was overall doing a parody of Shakespeare"

As I Lay Dying

Flood and Fire "they endured because Anse made them do it"
Mrs. Bundren "done, done, and Anse moves onto the next one"
Darl in WWI "the sad effects of post-traumatic stress disorder"
As I Lay Rotting "doing the bare minimum and screwing up the whole way"
The Wedding Dress "misery follows Addie beyond the grave"
Was Addie a Good Mother? "she should have never had kids"
Perception "it's all in the eye of the beholder and it can change"
When will I be blown up? "focus on the here and now and don't worry so much about how it's going to end"
Vantage Point "different perspectives were refreshing and helpful"
The Buzzards "the buzzards and the Bundrens are like family because they're just that similar"
Anse's Burden "Anse is a burden for the entire Bundren family"
Anse vs. Whitfield "at least Whitfield felt remorse for what he did"
He Kilt Her "Vardaman's childish mind had a good insight unbeknownst to him"

The Cherry Orchard

Comedy "putting distant relatives in a room together is funny for no apparent reason"
Lopakhin "the unintentional villain"
Telegrams "try to forget"
A String Breaking? "out with the old in with the new"
Happy ending? "happy if your name is Lopahkin, but otherwise rather sad"
Strange Vanya "what a sad little life he lead"
The Format of the Movie "good concept, but this was the wrong play to do it with"
Who Knows "all we can do is speculate as to what happens when we die"
Madame Renevsky "no sympathy for her"

Blank Verse, Heroic Couplet, Stanza

Better Without Rhyme? "total freedom for the writer"
The Lamb "religious overtones used to make a point"
Sad, Bittersweet, or Cute? "reminiscing on lost loved makes me smile remembering the good times"
Possible flaws "intentional flaws for the sake of breaking the monotony of symmetry"
Sing Your Night Song "silence in love is foolish"

Essays

Poetry Today "only when artists compromise, will poetry die"
Difficulty v. obscurity "it's pointless to be difficult for the sake of being difficult"
Why so personal? "it's sad if people dumb down art to appeal to the masses"
Is Pope Arrogant? "self-explanatory"
He Does Make a Good Point "only masters deserve the right to be critics"

The Crying of Lot 49

American Dream- 1 Post
Meaningless Details- 1 Post
3 other posts I forgot to document

The Things They Carried

The Man I Killed- 1 Post
American Casualties- 1 Post
The Paper- 1 Post
Do You Still Feel Emotion?- 1 Post
War. What is it Good for?- 1 Post
"Mary Anne Belle" Continued- 1 Post

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Blame Game- 1 Post
House or Home- 1 Post
Drunken Babble- 1 Post
True Love?- 1 Post
The Movie- 1 Post
About Addictions- 1 Post
Fog- 1 Post
Eugene=Edmund- 1 Post
Who Causes Addiction?- 1 Post
Crazy- 1 Post
Contradictions- 1 Post
God, Mary, and Mary- 1 Post
Fiction, but not, how effective?- 1 Post
The Life of Tyrone- 1 Post
Trust- 1 Post
What Makes a Good Ending?- 1 Post
The Journey- 1 Post

Invisible Cities

Structure- 1 Post
Math Curse- 1 Post
Just One City- 1 Post
Women Names- 1 Post
Opportunity Cost- 1 Post
Thekla- 1 Post

The Elegy and Pastoral

Continuum- 1 Post
Thought-Fox- 1 Post
Tears in Sleep- 1 Post
Ave Maria- 1 Post
Continuum- 1 Post

Collaborations

(non-post pages made with others)
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Discussions

links to discussion pages (see tab above) to which you've contributed

External Links

Carmel Catholic
brtom.org

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This page was last revised by KRi-c on May 22, 2008 8:22 pm.